Machine for the manufacture of box parts



June 3, 1941. H. PAXTQN Er'AI. 7 2,243,919

MACHINE FOR THE' MANUFACTURE OF BOX PARTS I Filed Juiy 6, 1937 6 Sheets-Shg'et l June 3, 1941. H. PAxToN ETAL 2,243,919

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ATTOR/VE) June 3, 1941. H.- PAXTON ETAL MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BOX PARTS I Filed July 6, 1957 s Sheets- Sheet 5 I/AWELL June 3, 1941. H.'PAXTON ElAL MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BOX PARTS Filed July 6, 1937 6 Sheets-Sheet 6 S NN$ MN wmw mm MW Patented June 3, 1941 u so STATES PATENT OFFICE I i I ron. gimmn or sox I HaieFaxtonandGecald 'c. Paxton, and Glenn E. Stilweil, Anaheim, Calif ors to Food Machinery Corporation,

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Oalit, a corporation of Delaware Applicationtluly a, 1927. Serial No. item This inventionrelates to the box making art and hasparticular reference to the manufacture Claims. (c1. 144-4) of display lug boxes in which each of the lug heads is partially severed by a horizontal slot and the portions on opposite sides of the slot are held together by nails driven into the edge of the head nearest the slot and extending into the head substantial distances beyond the plane of the slot.

Lug boxes of the type above referred to are in common usein the fresh fruit shipping industries and these lugs not only have the ends slotted and nailed, as above mentioned, but have each of the sides of the box put on in two pieces, the parting line between which pieces lies in the same plane as the slots in the box heads. This type of box after being packed with fruit is lidded in the. ordinary manner by nailing ends of the lid to the ends of the box and the box thus packed and lidded is shipped to market. After arriving at the market and being delivered to the retailer the box is opened by extending a heavy screw driver or pry bar into the slots in the box heads and prying the'portions of the box heads lying above the slots upwardly together with the lid and the upper pieces of the box sides which have been nailed to the parts of the box heads thus pried upwardly. This separation of the box is effected fairly easily and leaves the upper layer of fruit extending a con-" siderable distance above the remaining lower portion of the box so as to make a pleasing-display of the fruit in the box.

While the above described type of display lug box has been used fairly widely, the fullest possible use of this box has been prevented by the expense involved in the manufacture of the sawed and nailed box heads.

It is therefore an object of this invention to produce an apparatus for manufacturing heads for display lug boxes of the type described hereinabove whereby these heads maybe fairly inexpensively produced.

It is a broad object of our invention to pro-- vide a novel machine for manufacturing box parts.

tion taken in connection with the accompanying Fig. '1 is-a' front elevational view .01 a preferred embodiment of the apparatus of our invention.

2 is a perspective view of a display lug box the heads-of which it is the object of this invention to manufacture.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the machine shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. -4 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3 and shows a blank box head being fed into processing position and the circular saw means of the invention starting to rise so as to engage and slot this blank.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary cross sectional view taken on the line H of Fig. 4.

lt is a still further object of our invention to provide a novel apparatus for handling box parts.

It is yet another object of our invention to provide a machine which isadapted to stack box parts in a series of stacks of predetermined size.

The manner of accomplishing the foregoing object, as well as further objects and advantages, will be made apparent in the following descrip- Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 4 and showing the feeding mechanism in the midst of a reverse stroke and the circular saw mechanism disposed in. its uppermost slotting position.

" Fig. 7 is a fragmentary enlarged transverse sectional view taken on line of Fig. 3.

Fla. 8 is a perspective view of the nailing mechanism operating shaft of our invention.

Fig. 9 Ba perspective view of a nailing mechanism operating leverwhich, while shown separate from the shaft illustrated inFig. 8, is normally assembled permanently on said shaft.

Fig. 10 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken on line ll-ll of Fig. 3 and illustrating the mechanism for controlling the discharge of a stack of finished box heads from the apparatus. I I

Fig. 11 is a fragmentary cross sectional view taken on line li,ll of Fig. 10 and showing the finished box head supporting dogs positioned as when adapted to receive the individual heads into the finished head stacking magazine.

Fig. 12 is a view similar to Fig. 10 and illustrates the step by step operation of the stack trates the lowering of the stack of heads just referred to into downward position in which this stack is adapted to be ejected from the machine.

Fig. 15 is fragmentary diagrammatic horizontal sectional view taken on the line iS-Ji inFig.10. q

Referring specifically to the drawings, the

preferred embodiment-of the apparatus of our invention illustrated therein comprises a combination saw and nailing machine 29. This machine includes a frame II, a box head runway and magazine means 22, a stack storage conveyor 23, a power mechanism 24, afeed mechanism 25, a nailing mechanism 25, a saw mechanism 21 and a stacking mechanism 25.

The frame 21 The frame 2i preferably includes four legs 35,

two of which carry fixed axle wheels 35, and two of which carry casters 31. The legs 35 are united at their upper ends by a rectangular angle iron head frame 38 and at their lower ends by a base frame 39. Mounted on'top of head frame 28 is a top plate 40. This top plate is provided with openings H, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 45. The frame 2I also has vertical members 59 and BI which carry bearings 52 and 53 respectively, ther being an opening 54 in member M the purpose oi which will be made clear hereinafter.

Boa: head runway and magazine means 22 Rigidly secured to the upper face of the top plate 40 is an angle iron member 60 (which runs box head feed magazine III which includes upright fiat bars" and I2 and upright angle iron bars 13 and 14, these bars all being secured at their lower ends to the angle iron members 55 and GI. Mounted on these upright bars are magazine walls I8 and I9, the upper ends of these walls being spaced by' spacers 80. The wall I9 at the left hand or open end of the magazine II is flared. as indicated in Fig. 3, and the correspond-, ing end of the wall I8 is provided with a flared latchgate 8| which is yieldably biased inwardly into box head trapping position by a leaf spring 52 mounted on the upright bar 'Il. As clearly shown in Figs. 4 and.6 the inwardly extending flanges 85 of the angle iron bars I3 and I4 extend into the path of the box heads in the magazine III to prevent the feeding of any of these heads from the magazine III except that disposed in lowermost position and resting directly on the rails 65.

Mounted on the angle iron 5! is a limit switch 85 having a finger 81 which is yieldably pressed zine I0 and at the same angle. Mounted in the slots 90 and 9| by pins 92 and 93 is a saw guard and head gripping member 95, the pin 93 being secured to the member 95 by a bar 95 which is slidable in a suitable opening provided in the member 95 and adjustably secured thereto by a set screw 91. As indicated in Fig. 4 the left hand end of the member 95 is provided with an upwardlyinclined guide face 95, the purpose of which will be made clear hereinafter. As show in Figs. 3 and 7 the member 95 has a saw guard 99 provided thereon which is disposed directly over and in alignment with the opening 42 in the.

frame top plate 40.

At points opposite the processing position in the center of the machine previously referred to, the angle iron 60 is provided with guide bars III which are preferably welded to this angle iron member, the latter also having slots I-II formed in its'upright flange opposite these bars. Disposed to slide against bars III! and extend through the slots I I I so as to overlie the adjacent runway rail 55 is a pair of nailing anvils II2 which are yieldably held in engagement with the left ends of the slots II I by coil springs H3. The inner edges of the anvils I I2 are for the most part flat and parallel with the rails 65 but their leftwardmost portions are beveled as shown in Fig. 3. Mounted on the right hand end of the angle iron and on the angle iron 53 is a stacker magazine I20 which is disposed directly over the opening 43 in the frame top plate 40 and includes upright flat bars I2I and upright angle iron bars I22 and I23 upon which magazine walls I24 are supported.

The walls and the upper ends of the bars I2I, I 22 and I23 are rigidly spaced by spacers I25.

Pivotally mounted on a vertical axis on the angle iron 63 is a stack stop I30 which is yieldably held by spring I3I into a position as shown in Fig. 3 in front of a stack of heads disposed in inwardly into the magazine 10 into the position cult of the switch 85 closed.

,That portion of the runway 54 which is disposed in the middle of the machine is where the box heads ane positioned in what may be referred to as a processing position" as it is in; this posithe magazine I29.

' The stack storage conveyor 23 This conveyor is preferably of the ordinary gravity type and includes an inclined gravity conveyor section 7 I35 which is secured to the right hand end of the head frame-38 and is braced from beneath by a brace I36 connected to the base frame 39; At the end of the conveyor I35 is a stop I31. v

The power mechanism 24 This mechanism includes an electric drive mov tor I40 mounted on the base frame 39 said motor preferably'having incorporated therewith a repinion by-a chain I46.

tion in which each box head is processed in he Journalled at its ends in bearings I50 provided on the frame 2 I- is a nailing mechanism operating shaft I5I having two arms I52 which extend upwardly therefrom through the openings 44 in the top plate 40 (see Fig. 3). Secured centrally to the shaft I5I is an arcuate hub I53 of an arm I54 which extends downwardly therefrom and is connected by a spring I55 to the frame member 50 so as to constantly urge the shaft I5I to rotate in a clockwise direction, as seen in Fig. 7.

Rockably assembled on the shaft I5I, as shown in Fig. 7, is a nailing mechanism operating lever extremities of the arms I92 is a universal joint' I65 of a pitman Ill, the lower end of the latter being connected by a swivel hearing I" to the crank' Ill.

Boa: head feed mechanism 25 Secured to the bottom of the frame top plate ll on opposite sides of the opening lI therein is a pair of guide bars I'll which, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, slidably support a feed slide block III. Theblock "I has openings "2 and I'll, in the first of which is pivotally mounted the rear end of an arm I'll having a feed dog I'll at its front end which extends up into, opening I'll. The am: I'll has a limited degree of movement relative to the slide block I'll, by virtue of a pin I'll on this block extending into a-slot I'l'l on this arm. The arm I'll is pivotally connected by links I'll to the upper end of a power lever I'll the lower end of which is pivotallymounted on a shaft Ill provided on the base frame 39 of the machine. The links I'll extend leftward beyond their pivotal connection with the lever I l9 and are connected by a contractile spring III to the lever I'll to continually urge the arm I'll into its upwardmost position in which the dog I'll extends above the upper surface of the box head guide rails 65.

The lever I19 has a pin 182 which extends through a slot I93 ina bifurcated head Ill of a pitman I85 having a, lower forked end Ill which is connected to the crank pin It'l of the crank Ill, as shown in Figs. 4 and 'l (and as will be presently described) so that as this crank Ill rotates the lever I I9 is swung back and forth causing a re-. ciprocation of the sliding head ill from one end of the magazine 10 to the other for the purpose of feeding box heads from the lower end of this magazine.

The nailing mechanism 26 Secured as by suitable bolts to the upper face of the top plate 49, as shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 'l,

g are a pair of driver guide plates I99 which have apertures corresponding and in alignment with openings ll of the plate l9 and up through which the arms I52 of the shaft I5I also extend. Mounted on the inner ends of the plates I90 are a pair of nail chucks I9I having drivers. I92. The outer ends of thedrivers I92 are fixed to slide blocks I 93 which are slidable on the plates I90 and are connected by links I9l to the upper ends of the arms I52 so that as the shaft I5I is rocked to swing the arms I52 inwardly the drivers I92 are slid inwards into the nail chucks I9I .to drive nails therefrom. 3

Attached to the magazine upright bars 'll and I29 is a nail hopper supporting frame I96 having funnels I91 and tubes I98 for directing nails therefrom to nail chucks I9I. Pivotally mounted on the hopper frame I99 is a suitable nail hopper I99 which is adapted to be rocked by a pitman 290 the upper end of which pivotally connects to the hopper I99 and the lower end of which pivotallyconnects with thearm Ill asshowninl'lgfll, this pitman extending through the opening ll in the frame top plate ll. When so rocked, the nail hopper I99 delivers with each cycle of its motion a single nail to each of the funnels III which nails gravitate immediately through the tubes I99 into the nail chucks III.

Saw mechanism 27 This mechanism has a rockable base 2Il which is mounted on a shaft 2, the opposite ends of which areiournalled in suitable bearings 2I2 provided on the frame 2|. Thebas'e 2" supports an electric motor Ill and has a bearing 2Il'in which is Jo'urnaled a saw shaft 2" having a pulley 2i! .which is directly connected by v-belts 2" to a pulley 2Il mounted on the shaft of the motor s 2H. Tothe opposite end of'the shaft 2II isiixed a circular saw 229 which lies in the vertical plane of the longitudinal axis of the opening l2 in the top plate ll and. the corresponding opening provided in the saw guard 99 (see Fig. 7). The end of the bearing 2 adjacent thesaw 229 provides an outer bearing surface which pivotally receives the upper end of a pitman 22 I, the lower end of which pivotally connects with'crank Ill and is provided with a bearing ear 222 to which the bifurcated end Ill of the pitman Ill pivotally connects. It is thus .-,een that rotation of the shaft 2 reciprocates the saw 229 up and down between its lower position assubstantially shown in Fig.9 and its uppermost position as shown in Fig. 8. I

The stacking mechanism 28 Provided on the saw mechanism base 2" is 9. lug 299 having a bolt 23I which is r sposed in a slot 232 formed in a link 2. The upper end of the link 23! is pivoted at 29l to a pair of arms 29! on a shaft 239, the opposite ends of the latter journalling in bearings 231 provided on the frame. Disposed parallel with the shaft 236 and having its opposite ends journalled in bearings 2" provided on the frame is a similar shaft 2 having a pair of arms 2l2. Resting in its lowermost position on the shafts 239 and 2 and disposed on the longitudinal axis of the stacking magazine I20 is a stacking bar 2l3 to which the extremities of the arms 235 and 2l2 are pivotally connected by shafts 2l9 and 241. Mounted on opposite ends of the shafts 2l6 and 2" are stacking rollers 2. Another pair of similar rollers 2 are pivotally mounted in the same plane on a shaft 250 which is provided on the bar 2" Referring now to Figs. 10 to 15, inclusive, it is to be noted that shaft 238 extends forwardly through the forwardmost bearing 231, where it carries freely rotatable thereon a ratchet gear 280 having a series of semi-circular recesses 26I formed in its periphery. Gear 250 has a cam lug 282 provided on its rear face, as shown in Figs. 11 13 and 14.

. Fixed upon the forward extremity of the shaft 299 is an arm 263 which, with the gear 280 extends upwardly through opening 46 in the top plate lll'and into a hood 26l mounted on the top plate over thisopening.

Provided on the upper end of the arm 263 is a dog 26! carrying a pin 266 which extends out through an opening 261 inthe side of the hood 284, the lower surface of this opening being shaped to permit the pin 266' to drop downwardly into one of the recesses 26I in the periphery of the gear wheel 260 and rotate this wheel a given distance when the arm 263 rocks with the shaft and inwardly through openings 280 in said angle irons, as shown in Fig. 11.

Provided on the magazine walls I24 and hearing against an opposite pair of the fingers 211 and 218 are leaf springs 28I for'yieldably holding th fingers 211 and 218 in their inwardmost positions.

Shaft 215 has a short arm 282 extending downwardly therefrom adjacent the shaft 236, and

. a link 263 which is also adjacent the shaft 236 pivotally connects to arm 282 and to the finger 218 in alignment therewith as shown in Fig. 11. The forward end of the link 283 extends to a point close to the rear face of the ratchet gear 1 wheel 26I and is there provided with a roller 264 which lies in the path of the cam lug 262 provided on this ratchet gear. When the ratchet gear 26! is rotated as by engagement of the pin 266 therewit .so as to bring the lug 262 into engagement with the roller 284, this. results in the link 233 being swung rearwardly thus rocking the shafts 215 and 216 and swinging the fingers 211 and 218 outwardly from within the magazine I20, as shown in Fig. 13.

Operation The operation of the combination saw and nailing machine 20 in performing the method of our invention is as follows: I

The magazine is first furnished with. a supply of blank box heads H so as to substantially fill this magazine, the lowermost heads in the magazine engaging the finger 81 of the switch 86, as shown in Fig. 5, to close this switch. As this switch is included in the wiring circuits of the motors I 40 and 2I3, these motors may now be energized turning on the switch controlling the-supply of electricity thereto. When this takes place the saw wheel 226, of course is set in motion and rapidly rotated in the direction of the arrow 235 (see- Figs. 4 and 6). At the same time the shaft I62 is being rotated by the motor I in the direction of the arrow 286.

With the first rotation of the shaft I42 the feed dog I is caused to engage the lowermost blank box head H in the magazine 10 to feed this along the runway 64 into processing position. In this movement the head 1-! engages the cam face 96 of the member 95, thereby shifting the latter slightly to the right, the slots 96 and 9| thereby causing this member to be raised slightly to admit this head H therebeneath. At the same time the movement of the 'head H along the runway 64 brings the rear edge of this head into engagement with the nailing anvils II2, so as to room for this head to move past them, though in close sliding contact with these anvils.

As the feeding movement of this head H into processing position isthus completed, the crank ll3 swings upwardly the whirling circular saw 220 which, owing to the direction of its rotation tends to return this head H from the position in which it is first contacted back towards the magazine 16 from which it came. Owing to the inclination of the slots 90 and SI, however, this tendency results in the member 95 binding said head H downwardly against the rail 65 on which the head is resting. At the same time this occurs the tendency of this head H to return towards the magazine 15 under the impulse of the saw 220 causes a frictional engagement of this head with the nailing anvils II2 thereby causing the latter to bind the head against the angle iron 62 and prevent any motion of the head in response to the rotating saw 220. Each head 'H when it is fed into processing position and immediately thereafter engaged'by the rising and rotating saw 226 is thus rigidly locked against returning towards the magazine 10 from which it came. 7

As the shaft I 42 continues to rotate, the crank I shifts the pitman I66 upwardly and rocks the lever I58 about the shaft I 5| until the lower edge of the slot I6II in the hub I58 of this lever engages the fractional hub I53 of the arm I54 on the shaft I5I which results in a swinging motion of arms I62 being thenceforth transmitted directly to the shaft I5I and the arms I52'extending upwardly therefrom. -,Thus the arms I52 are swung inwardly and with these arms the nail drivers I92 which are fastened thereto through the blocks I93 and links I94. Nails previously fed to the nail chucks I9I from the hopper I99 are thus automatically driven from the chucks into the edge of the box head H now located in processing position. The nail chucks I9I and associated mechanism are so located with reference to the work when thus positioned that these nails are driven into the box head H very close to the ends of the slot cut in the head by the saw 220 as indicated in Fig. 6 where the nails are designated by the letter N.

The rocking of lever I56 with each cycle of operations actuates the nail hopper I99 to feed another pair of nails to the nail chucks I9I. One of the reasons for the lost motion between the lever I58 and the shaft I 5| is to accomplish the long stroke needed to work the nail hopper by the same pitman which operates the nail drivers.

Following the processing of a given box head H in the manner above described the saw 220 returns downwardly with the downward swinging of the crank I43 and another cycle of operations is commenced by the feeding of a fresh blank into processing position by another rightward movementv of the dog I15. As the new blank is thus fed from the magazine 10 into processing position it expels from this position the. blank head just processed and the completion of the feeding of the second blank leaves the first one disposed within the stacking magazine .I20.

Rightward movement of this finished head is halted by its engaging the spring stop I36, the finished head now resting upon rollers 248 and 249 with the latter in their lower position, as shown in Fig. 4. As the saw mechanism 21 is swung upward from the position in which it is shown in Fig. 4, to slot the second blank, the bolt 23I travels along the slot 232 of the link 233 and,

shift these slightly to the right, thereby-making having reached the upper end of this slot, starts to lift on the arms 236. This results in rocking the shafts 233 and 2" and lifting upwardly the position of these fingers, whereupon the springs 23I shift said fingers back into the positions in which they are shown in Fig. 11. As the saw mechanism 21 descends at the conclusion of the processing of the second blank herelnabove discussed, gravity, assisted by the spring 2" will pull the bar 243 downward until it rests upon the shafts 233 and 2 thereby rocking the latter and returning the arms 233 and rollers 243 and 249 back into their lowermost positions in which they are shown in Fig. 4. The first box head is now left resting on the upper ends of fingers 211 and 213 as shown in Fig. 11. As the operation of the machine 23 is continued and the successive box heads H are processed, fed into the stocking magazine, and lifted upwardly by the stacker mechanism 23, these heads accumulate above the fingers 211 and 213 to form astack.

When the machine 20 is started the ratchet wheel 28I is preferably adjusted so that the cam lug 262 is disposed just beneath the roller 234.

The arm 263 is so fixed on the end of the shaft 238 that with each cycle of operation of the machine the pin 286 engages one'of the recesses 2".

in the ratchet gear 260 and rotates this gear exactly the space between adjacent recesses 2. As there are twenty-five recesses 26I.about the periphery of the gear 260 it is thus seen that a stack of twenty-five heads H will havebeen processed and accumulated in the stacker magazine I20 before the gear 260 will have rotated sufiiciently to bring the cam lug 262 to the position in which it is shown in Figs. 13 and 14 where it will engage the roller 284 and shift the fingers 211 and 218 outwardly. As this happens at a time when the rollers 248 and 249 are disposed upwardly so as to support the stack on the rollers, the return downward of these rollers as the saw mechanism is lowered does not leave the stack resting on the fingers 211 and 218 as was previously the case but allows the stack to be carried downwardly on these-rollers so that the lowermost box head in the stack is directly in line with the head just processed and which is about to be ejected into the stacker magazine. Being thus in the path of the incoming manufactured head, the stack is thus expelled from the stacking magazine by said head as the latter moves into the stacking magazine the spring stop I30 yielding to permit the stack to pass. When thus expelled the stack travels along the idle roller conveyor section I35 of the stack accumulating conveyor 23 and comes to rest against the end stop I31,

From the foregoing description it is seen that after the machine 20 is once started the only thing that is necessary to do in order for the processing operation of the machine 20 to continue indefinitely without halting is to keep the nail hopper J99 supplied with nails. to keep the feed magazine Ill supplied with blank box heads, and to keep the accumulating conveyor 23 from becoming congested with stacks of processed heads. It is to be noted, however, that in the event that a supply of blank box heads is not maintained in the feed magazine III, the finger 31 of the switch 33 will be automatically released and permitted to spring upwardly thereby breaking the circuit of the switch and shutting off the motors-I40 and2I3.

As the switch 36 is included in the circuit of motors I43 and 2I3, these motors will again be started when a new supply of blank box heads is delivered into said magazine-I0. Thus, the machine 20 is automatically stopped each time the supply of blank box heads therein is exhausted, remains stopped as long as this condition continueaand starts again to process box heads as soon as a fresh supply of the latter is delivered to the magazine III.

What we claim is:'

1. In combination: means to feed a series of shook blanks along a given path by intermittent movements separated by pauses, one of said blanks halting during each of said pauses in a processing position; means for locking each blank against reverse movement along said path when said blank is in said processing position;

, circular saw means operated in timely relation with said feed means to move into engagement with each blank as it arrives in said processing position to cut a slot in said blank, said circular saw means having cutting engagement with said blank in a direction reverse to that in which said feed means feeds said blanks to cut a slot in each blank; nailing means for driving nails into an edge of each of said blanks adjacent the ends of the slots when said blank is in said processing position, and means for coordinately actuating said feed means, said circular saw means and said nailing means.

2. In combination: means for feeding box material along a given path in a given direction allowing said material to halt in a processing position; a circular saw; means for rapidly rotating said saw; means for shifting said saw against said'material whenthe latter is in processing condition to cause said saw to cut a slot in said material and exert a force on said material urging the latter in the same direction in which the teeth of said saw move in engaging said material; binding means disposed for operation on said material when the latter is in processing position, said binding means having gripping faces arranged for engagement with opposite faces of said material adjacent an edge thereof and being responsive to movement of said material under the rotative urge of the saw to rigidly grip said material against movement in said direction with said saw; nail driving means disposed adjacent said processing position for driving nails in edges of said material between said gripping faces; and means for actuating said nail driving means during gripping engagement of said material by said binding means.

3. In a machine for manufacturing display box ends, the combination of: means for gripping a box end in a given position; means disposed adjacent said position for operating on said box end to form a slot therein which extends through said box end but is spaced from side edges thereof to leave unsawed portions of said box end in the plane of said slot and at opposite ends thereof; nail driving means disposed adjacent said position for driving nails into said box end to cause said nails to pass through the plane of said slot; and means for co-ordinately actuating said slot forming and nail driving means in timed relation to form said slot and drive said nails into a box end held in said position by said gripping means.

4. In a machine for manufacturing display box ends, the combination of: means for feeding a series of shook blanks along a given path by intermittent movements separated by pauses, one of said blanks halting during each of said pauses in a processing position; means for lockingeach blank against movement in a given direction along said path when said blank is in said processing position; circular saw means adapted to move into engagement with each blank as it arrives in-said processing position to cut a slot in said blank which extends through said blank but is spaced from side edges of the latter to leave unsawed portions of said blank in the plane of said slot and at opposite ends thereof, said circular saw means having cutting engagement with said blank in a direction against which said locking means locks said blank against movement; nailing means disposed adjacent said processing position and adapted for driving nails into each of said blanks adjacent the ends of the aforesaid slots and through the plane thereof while said blank is in said processing position; and means for co-ordinately actuating said feed means, said circular saw means, and said nailing sesame means in timed relation so as to feed said blanks as aforesaid andto slot and nail each 01 said blanks while the latter is in said processing position.

5. In a machine for manufacturing display box ends; the combination of: means for feeding a series of shock blanks along a given path by intermittent movements separated by pauses. one of said blanks halting during each of said pauses in a processing position; means for locking each blank against movement in a given direction along said path when said blank is in said processing position; circular saw means adapted to move into engagement with each blank asit arrives in said processing position to cut a slot in said blank which extends through said blank but is spaced from side edges of said blank to leave unsawed portions of said blank in the plane of said slot and at opposite ends thereof, said circularsaw means having cutting engagement with said blank in the direction against which said locking means locks said blank against movement; nailing means for driving nails into an edge of each of said blanks adjacent the end of the aforesaid slot in said blank during one of said pauses; and means for co-ordinately actuating said feed means, said circular saw means, and said nailing means in timed relation.

' HALE PAXTON.

GERALD C. PAXTON. GLENN E. S'I'ILWEIL.

CERTIFICATE '01 CORRECTION.

Patent No. 2,215,919. Jude 5, 191 1.

' HALE PAXITOH, ET AL.

It is hereby certified that error: appears inthe printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correctionas follows: Page'fi, second column; line 14.0, claim 2, for the word "condition" read po'sit1o n'-*;

page 6, first coiumn, line 15, claimli, for "a" read --the--; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the recprd of the case in the Patent bffice.

Signed and sealed 1:111; 22nd day r Jul 'A. D. 191 1.

' Henri Van Arsdale, (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

